Object Oriented Programming has Failed Us

Re:Object Oriented Programming has Failed Us by aggieben on Monday June 02, 2008 @09:56AM (#206704)

  I really hate to say this, as much as I like object
  oriented programming but, I really think we might be better 
  off if we went back to procedural programming for the bulk 
  of the applications that we write and left the object 
  oriented stuff to people who really understand it and for 
  problems that can not be solved any other way.

  Meanwhile, back at the lab, we need to come up with a 
  programming environment that most people understand 
  naturally.  We need to do usability studies on the 
  languages we develop just like we test applications we 
  develop for users.  Instead of trying to simplify what we 
  are already doing, which continues to provide solutions 
  that only programmers understand, we need to provide 
  solutions that are no longer programmer centric.

Isn't this what we used to call Visual Basic?

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Re:Object Oriented Programming has Failed Us by stcredzero on Monday June 02, 2008 @01:15PM (#206927)

It seems to be natural to do GUI-centric programming as in Visual Basic. People like attaching ideas to things that they can see. I think that the real problem is that there is an Impedance Mismatch between current GUIs and the domain. Once we have solved this, then the natural way to program won't conflict so drastically with good Object Oriented practices.

I'm not sure if we can get there before we reach the level of GUIs in Minority Report, but I think we won't need quite all of that.

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